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Tweet Jeff Smith is working on a new comic!!!!! According to his blog: The image above is the cover for a 6 page preview comic I’m working on for the San Diego Comic-Con International. It’s also going to be the cover of RASL no.1 when the series starts coming out from Cartoon Books in 2008. [...]
TweetWhat are spoilers, anyway? Their history in nerd chronology perhaps goes back to the premiere of RETURN OF THE JEDI, when the New York Post, I believe, revealed that LEIA WAS LUKE’S SISTER DAYS BEFORE THE MOVIE OPENED. The young Beat read that spoiler but still went to see the movie opening night, for the [...]
Tweet The monthly publication here of Paul and Marc-Oliver’s sales chart comparisons are always occasions for analyses across the comics blogosphere and industry sites. Although as we all know by now the numbers are low by about 10-12%, the trending is still accurate, and the trending right now is that Marvel is beating DC by [...]
TweetDr. Sketchy appears at the Lucky Cat in Williamsburg tomorrow night: Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, the best damn cabaret life drawing class in the world began as the brain child of Brooklyn based artist Molly Crabapple. In the year and a half since its inception, Dr. Sketchy’s has strived to bring its patrons more than [...]
TweetPR: Joss Whedon has long been championed by women around the world for his depiction of strong female characters. His breakout hit television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured Buffy Anne Summers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar as the young woman chosen by fate to battle demons, vampires, and other nightmares. Buffy inspired a generation [...]
Tweet§ Tintin Pantoja goes to a comicon in INDONESIA!: Since I couldn’t attend MoCCA this year, I dropped by an Indonesian analogue- KONDEFEST- this weekend. It was a loose conglomeration of thatched kiosks in a park near the marina. Very hot and not the most pleasant place to spend more than a couple of hours, [...]
Tweet Neil Gaiman is off in Budapest learning how to direct movies from Guillermo del Toro. Luckily he took daughter Maddie along and she’s been reporting from the set and posting an awful lot of pictures that we’re surprised they let out Today we went on location to film Hellboy 2 and it definitely was [...]
TweetPR: It was the book that helped put BOOM! Studios on the map, with fans and critics singing its praises, but co-creators and writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis have announced that HERO SQUARED will soon be ending. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the two Eisner Award winning writers promise an [...]
TweetCut down from FirstShowing.net’s release schedule. Here’s a handicapped list. March 28 (Friday) Wanted May 2 (Friday) Iron Man May 9 (Friday) Speed Racer May 22 (Thursday) Indiana Jones 4 June 13 (Friday) The Incredible Hulk July 2 (Wednesday) Tonight, He Comes (Will Smith superhero movie— has has a name change.) July 18 (Friday) The [...]
TweetHave Bruce Campbell walk you through his stash. A mystery unfolds.
TweetHarlan Ellison posted this at his site tonight: RE: ELLISON v. FANTAGRAPHICS, INC., et al: THE LITIGATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES HAS BEEN RESOLVED. THE PARTIES ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION. AT THIS TIME. Man that was FAST!
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